To use this option, check the [Enable Step and Repeat] check-box. You can create repeats and offsets of an image. (Figure 2)

The [Pattern Setup] area contains Size, Offsets, Horizontal Repeats, Vertical Repeats, Bric/Horizontal Offset, Drop/Vertical Offset, and Gap Color.

• Size – This option allows you to set width and height for repeating your textile design image that you desired. Use up and down arrow button or type [W] and [H] values. By default the [Size] is the same as the image’s size. (NOTE: Changing the size affects the Count values shown in Horizontal and Vertical Repeats.)
• Offset – This option allows you to set spaces between the repeating images. Use up and down arrow button or type [X] and [Y] values. [Offset] does not affect Size or Count values.
• Horizontal Repeats/Vertical Repeats – These options allow you to set the desired number of repeats for horizontal and vertical.
  • Count: Set then number of repeats using up and down arrow.
  • Gap: Set the gap space between the repeating images. Use up and down arrow button or type the value. By default, the images on the right overlap the image to the left and images on the bottom overlap the image to the top. You can also set a negative value for swapping the direction of the overlap.
  • Flip Alternating Repeats: This option allows you to set one to flip, or mirror every other horizontally and vertically. Check this box when you want to use this function.
  • Swap Overlap Direction: This option allows you to swap the direction of the overlap. Images on the left will overlap the image to the right and images on the top will overlap the image to the bottom. (NOTE: These controls are enabled only when the [Gap] is a negative value.)
• Brick/Horizontal Offset – This option allows you to set one to offset every row by selecting a predetermined percentage, or by specifying a custom value. (NOTE: [Brick] and [Drop] can't both be active at the same time.)
• Drop/Vertical Offset - This option allows you to set one to offset every column by selecting a predetermined percentage, or by specifying a custom value. (NOTE: [Brick] and [Drop] can't both be active at the same time.)
• Gap Color - This option allows you to select a specific solid color that is placed between each repeat for horizontal and vertical. There are three options: [First Pixel], [White], [Custom…]
  • First Pixel: Select [First Pixel] sets the Gap Color to be the color of the top-left pixel in the image.
  • White: Select [White] sets the gap color to be white.
  • Custom: Select [Custom] will display the “Gap Color” dialog which you can set the [Gap Color] in image color space. Clicking the palette button to the right of the combo box will display the "Gap Color" dialog. Clicking the eye-dropper button will enable you to choose a color by clicking directly on the image.
• Reset Pattern - This button allows you to reset all your settings on the [Pattern] tab

Colorways option makes it easy to replace the colors in a pattern. The set of replaced colors (colorways) can be applied to other jobs or automated using a Quick Set.

 

Colorways supports specific file formats: Index color TIFF, Separation TIFF and Multichannel PSD.

 

To use Colorways;

1. Check the [Enable Colorways] check-box (Figure 2).
2. Click [Coloways Setup] button.
3. This opens “Manage Colorways” dialog. (Figure 3)

 

NOTE: You need to create a design file first in your design application before you use the Colorways. For how to create and save your design file as Index color TIFF, Separation TIFF and Multichannel PSD, see a white paper of “Using Colorways”.

“Manage Colorways” dialog is divided into four sections: File and Color Settings, Layer Management, Image and Layer Preview, and Colorways Library.

 

<File and Color Settings section>

• ColorWays File Name: It showed the applied [.ocw (ONYX ColoeWays)] file. If no .ocw] file is already applied it defaults to “unnamed”. A name and file can be saved when clicking [Apply to Job], or changes to another [.ocw] file in the Colorways Library.
• ICC Profile: An ICC Profile is needed if layers are changed using spot colors or Lab.
• Color space: By default, it is set as “CMYK” and shows it as gray out. When [Colorspace] is set to Reset to RGB, the options for [Layer Space] changes. The available options are [Spot], [Lab], and [Device Color] (Value and Hex).

 

< Layer Management section>

Layer management lists all the indexed, separation, or channels as individual layers. The number of layers depends on the number of colors defined in the image file’s color look up table, number of separations or number of channels. By default Colorways shows each layer in ascending levels of grayscale. The color for each layer can be modified by double-clicking the layer or using the [Edit] button.

 

• [ + ] button: Click this button for adding layers and background layers.
• [ - ] button: Click this button for removing layers.
• [Edit] button: Click this button for editing each layer’s color. You can change Layer Space to [Spot] and [Lab] from [Percent] using drop down menu (Figure 4, 5). After you are done editing layers, click [Apply to Job] button in the main Colorways window.

 

NOTE: The ICC selected in [ICC Profiles] is used for color conversions to output. If the [ICC Profiles] is set to [None,] and the [Layer Space] is set to [Spot] or [Lab], that layer will be ignored. All parts of the image for that layer will not be rendered. In the main Colorways window the layer indicates a problem by displaying red text under the [Type] column.

If the [Layer Space] is defined by anything other than [Spot] or [Lab], the [ICC Profile] can be set to [None].

 

< Image and Layer Preview section>

The image preview shows the entire image with the active [.ocw] colors applied. This is updated as the colors for each layer change.

 

• Layer View: This option shows what parts of the file are impacted by the actively highlighted layer. Click on a layer and the Layer View shows the pieces of the image that belong to that layer.

 

< Colorways Library section>

The [Colorways Library] populates a list of [.ocw] files found in the directory listed at the top. This directory can be configured to any location on the computer. After it has been set, every time Colorways is open, the directory will be shown at the top.

The [Colorways Library] makes it easy to toggle between different colorways. An image that needs different color schemes can be easily changed from one to another.

If any [.ocw] files saved in the same directory as the ONYX software, they will be deleted when the ONYX software is uninstalled. Create a backup copy to another location, or use an external folder as the [Colorways Library] directory (Figure 5).

 

NOTE: An [.ocw] file does not need to be saved to apply Colorways on an image in Job Editor. "ocw" files provide an easy method to apply the same colorway to another image. They are required to automate Colorways with a Quick Set.

 

TIP: To learn more about Colorways, see a white paper.